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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

st: RE: RE: group option for generate

I would go with J. Stuart Mill rather than J. Rawls.

The ease at making this type of mistake reminds me
of SAS. I suppose it's too much bother to sweep it
under the version control.

Roy

Nick Cox said

>This was precisely Sven's main point, that confusion can arise. But cutting
>the function
>out of the executable would just break any do files and programs that used
>it correctly, and thus penalise the just as well as the unjust.